There's No, No In Your Eyes

Deadline Poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the October 14, 2002 edition of The Nation.

September 26, 2002

As Sung to Saddam Hussein by George W. Bush

(With apologies to Eddy Howard, and anybody who becomes collateral damage)

Saddam, we've threatened to attack
If you keep weapons masked.
Don't think you'll now avoid a war
By doing what we've asked.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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